Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 09 September 2019 20:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] Alissa Cooper's No Objection on draft-ietf-intarea-frag-fragile-16: (with COMMENT)
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On 09-Sep-19 16:11, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
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>> On Sep 8, 2019, at 8:50 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 09-Sep-19 12:15, Joe Touch wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sep 8, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> <mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wouldn't that require the middle box to become an architectural element?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, but not just “an” (one):
>>>>>
>>>>> Touch, J: Middlebox Models Compatible with the Internet. USC/ISI (ISI-TR-711), 2016. (Type: Technical Report | Links | BibTeX)
>>>>>
>>>>>  * https://www.strayalpha.com/pubs/isi-tr-711.pdf
>>>>
>>>> I'll take the liberty of pointing out that we've known for many years that
>>>> there are multiple types of middleboxes and they have multiple facets:
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3234
>>>
>>> Facets are just properties. That doc makes no attempt to describe them as architectural roles.
>>
>> Agreed. My point is that the issue has been lying on the IETF table for many years, and we've collectively chosen to ignore it.
> 
> By “we”, I’m not sure who you mean. There have been plenty of us complaining about this gap for a very long time in the IETF.

Yes, but the IAB hasn't really taken up the issue and we haven't ever had a WG that seriously tackled it, IMHO.

> 
>>
>>>>
>>>> So far, we haven't added them to any formal architectural description of
>>>> the Internet, probably because we don't have one.
>>>
>>> RFC1122, RFC1123, RFC1812 as standards.
>>>
>>> I (and IMO those RFCs) disagree with the position you took in RFC1958, FWIW.
>>
>> "you" = the IAB in 1996; I was only the document editor.
> 
> Fair point, but presumably you were on the IAB at the time?

Yes indeed. But although it's almost my most-cited RFC, I don't deserve sole credit or sole blame.

> 
>> But IMHO those RFCs are not architectural as such. They describe functions of nodes, not how the nodes work together as a system.
> 
> An architecture is (IMO) the behavior of a system that is the consequence of the behavior of its components and the ways in which they interact.
> 
> Arguably, those RFCs - adding 791 and 3819, and a few others, do exactly that. In a nutshell: routers relay; subnets (as links) interconnect), and hosts source, sink, and do the rest (including reliability), all based on globally-unique addresses in that can be aggregated by bit prefix. No, there’s no “roadmap” doc that provides the top-level description, but the rest is definitely there in those and other docs.

Yes, we agree about that. It's the roadmap that is missing.

> IMO, the issue is that middleboxes can’t simply be added to that list consistently - they aren’t a third thing that can be peers to routers or hosts. There is a way to describe them that’s consistent, though - but only if they are different elements when viewed from different points in the network (as I described in the tech report).

I can't disagree.

   Brian
> 
> Joe